User:SlimVirgin/LW timeline


 * Timeline


 * Dob 26 April 1889, 8:30 pm


 * May 1902, Hans suicide


 * May 1903, Rudi suicide


 * Sep 1903, starts at Realschule, Linz


 * 3 Oct 1903, Otto Weininger suicide


 * 23 Oct 1906, starts at Technische Hochschule, Berlin


 * Spring 1908, starts at Manchester: propeller research --> mathematics --> what is mathematics? --> Russell --> Principles of Mathematics --> Russell's paradox --> what is logic?


 * Autumn 1908, earns research studentship there for propeller work


 * Summer 1911, visits Gottlob Frege --> reduce truths of maths to truths of logic? --> laws of logic = laws of thoughts


 * 18 Oct 1911, turns up at Bertrand Russell's rooms


 * Nov 1911, Russell reads something W writes, and decides he is a genius


 * 1912, joins Moral Sciences Club


 * 17 May 1912, Lytton Strachey writes about him attending an Apostles meeting


 * Summer 1912, meets David Hume Pinsent at Russell squash


 * May 1912, Pinsent writes that W has just started to study philosophy


 * Sept 1912, travels to Iceland with Pinsent, financed by Karl


 * 29 Nov 1912, first paper to MSC


 * 20 Jan 1913, Karl Wittgenstein dies


 * 1913, goes to Skjolden, Norway, writes Logik


 * 8 Oct 1913, W and Pinsent last see each other at Birmingham train station


 * May 1914, angry letter to Moore about Logik not being appropriate for BA


 * August 1914, Pepi Strigl death


 * 3 Nov 1914, Georg Trakl death


 * 1916, Russell writes that LW's criticism meant he could never do good work again


 * March 1916, posted to a fighting unit on the Russian front


 * 14 Sept 1916: Last letter from Pinsent to W


 * Jan 1917, posted again to the Russian front as a member of a howitzer regiment


 * May 1918, Pinsent death, W distraught


 * June 1918, promoted to lieutenant and sent to northern Italy


 * Oct 1918, Kurt suicide, W returned to Italian front, captured by the Italians


 * Sept 1919, enrolls in teacher training college, Kundmanngasse, Vienna


 * May 1920, tells friend he is suicidal and "I have sunk to the lowest point."


 * 1920, first teaching job, in Trattenbach


 * Oct 1921, tells Russell he is surrounded by idiousness and baseness


 * 1921, Tractatus published in German. Logic does not describe states of affairs. Logic not a description of the world, but the boundary of the world. Limits of language = limits of reality. How do we describe limits without breaching them?


 * Sept 1922, moves to a school in Hassbach


 * Nov 1922, moves to a school in Puchberg am Schneeberg


 * Sep 1924, moves to a school in Otterthal


 * April 1926, Haidbauer incident


 * 17 May 1926, W is summoned to court in Gloggnitz, judge orders psychiatric report


 * August 1926, W writes to Ludwig Hänsel that case is ongoing


 * 1936-1927, returns to Austria to apologize to the pupils he hurt


 * 25 Oct 1946, waves a poker at Karl Popper



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 * 1955: PI published. Descartes wrong about inner to outer. W turns that around. Outer to inner. You know the content of your thoughts because you take part in a linguistic community. Language not a clothing for thought, but the fabric of it.

Legacy. W charismatic. People attracted to him, not ideas. Strongly disliked worship of science, which resonates with people in different disciplines.